THELOGICALINDIAN - Nasdaqlisted Microstrategy has purchased 29646 added bitcoins for 650 actor The latest acquirement brings the companys bitcoin backing to 70470 account added than 16 billion
Microstrategy Now Has Over $1.6 Billion in Bitcoin
Billion-dollar accessible aggregation Microstrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) appear its latest bitcoin acquirement on Monday. CEO Michael Saylor tweeted:
Microstrategy started buying ample amounts of bitcoin in August via Coinbase’s institutional service, authoritative the cryptocurrency its primary assets asset. After backbreaking its own balance cash, the aggregation aloft funds by affairs $650 actor account of convertible chief addendum to buy added bitcoin, causing Citigroup to downgrade its stock. At the accepted price, Microstrategy’s 70,470 bitcoins are account added than $1.6 billion.
Saylor, who is now an ardent bitcoin proponent, approved to argue Elon Musk over the weekend to move billions of dollars of Tesla’s funds into bitcoin. “If you appetite to do your shareholders a $100 billion favor, catechumen the $TSLA antithesis area from USD to BTC. Other firms on the S&P 500 would chase your advance & in time it would abound to become a $1 abundance favor,” he told Musk on Sunday. Saylor again offered to allotment his playbook with Musk offline.
“The accretion of added bitcoins appear today reaffirms our acceptance that bitcoin, as the world’s best widely-adopted cryptocurrency, is a dependable abundance of value,” Saylor opined. Commenting on his company’s latest bitcoin purchase, Microstrategy CFO Phong Le said:
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